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Lightning down : a World War II story of survival / Tom Clavin.

Clavin, Tom, 1954- (author.).

Summary:
"The incredible true story of fighter pilot Joe Moser's war in the sky and secret survival at Buchenwald during World War II. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his 44th combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 150 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story. Moser was just 22 years old, a farmboy from Washington State who fell inlove with flying. During the war he realized his dream of piloting a P-38 Lightning, one of the most effective weapons the Army Air Corps had against the powerful German Luftwaffe. But on that hot August morning he had to bail out of his damaged, burningplane. Captured immediately, Moser's journey into hell began. Joe Moser and his courageous comrades from England, Canada, New Zealand, and elsewhere endured against impossible odds in the most horrific surroundings... until the day the orders are issued by Hitler himself to execute them. Only a most desperate plan might save them. The page-turning momentum of Lightning Down is like that of a thriller, but the stories of imprisoned and brutalized airmen are true and told in unforgettable detail, led by thedistinctly American voice of Joe Moser, who prays every day to be reunited with his family. Lightning Down is a can't-put-down inspiring saga of brave men confronting great evil and great odds against survival"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781250151261
  • Physical Description: 310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-301) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The Farm Boy -- The Passenger -- The Prisoner -- The Survivor.
Subject: Moser, Joseph F.
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, German.
Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Prisoners of war > Germany.
Prisoners of war > United States.
Fighter pilots > United States > Biography.
United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Squadron, 429th > Biography.

Available copies

  • 20 of 22 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 22 total copies.
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Albright Memorial Library 940.54 CLAVIN (Text) 50686016109022 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Altoona Area Public Library 940.54 CLA (Text) 33240004943257 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Bangor Public Library 940.54 CLA (Text) 75011000372398 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Cambria County Library 940.5472 M899C (Text) 85131001799072 CACM Non-Fiction Checked Out 04/08/2024
Carbondale Public Library 940.54 CLAVIN (Text) 50688010805043 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Gettysburg Library 940.5472 CLAVIN (Text)
Endowment: VFW Post 15 Named Endowment, 2021
35740635786536 Nonfiction Available -
Green Free Library (Wellsboro) 940.547 CLA (Text) 92525070 GFWM Main Room Available -
Indian Valley Public Library 940.54 Clavin History (Text) 39427103618815 Nonfiction Room: Adult Nonfiction Available -
Joseph & Elizabeth Shaw Public Library 940.5472 CLAVIN (Text)
Memorial: In memory of Dick Bell presented by Sue Bell's Girls Card Club.
39636100440516 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Knoxville Public Library 940.54 CLA (Text) 30543003737775 Adult Nonfiction Available -

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